That is so weak! This is what we pay billions of dollars for? A kid with a map, a clock, and a compass could figure out how to navigate with out GPS and an ant can do it all with dead reckoning. You mean to tell me a robot that can store gigs of spy data can&#39;t compare it&#39;s previous flight path with incoming GPS data?<br>
<br>Hey Swarmies! What would you have done to prevent such a simple take over of Military grade robotics?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jake <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jake@spaz.org">jake@spaz.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">read the whole story:<br>
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer-Video" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer-Video</a><br>

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Using knowledge gleaned from previous downed American drones and a<br>
technique proudly claimed by Iranian commanders in September, the Iranian<br>
specialists then reconfigured the drone&#39;s GPS coordinates to make it land<br>
in Iran at what the drone thought was its actual home base in Afghanistan.<br>
<br>
&quot;The GPS navigation is the weakest point,&quot; the Iranian engineer told the<br>
Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran&#39;s<br>
&quot;electronic ambush&quot; of the highly classified US drone. &quot;By putting noise<br>
[jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This<br>
is where the bird loses its brain.&quot;<br>
<br>
The &quot;spoofing&quot; technique that the Iranians used -- which took into account<br>
precise landing altitudes, as well as latitudinal and longitudinal data<br>
made the drone &quot;land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to<br>
crack the remote-control signals and communications&quot; from the US control<br>
center, says the engineer.<br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
Prior to the disappearance of the stealth drone earlier this month, Irans<br>
electronic warfare capabilities were largely unknown and often dismissed.<br>
<br>
&quot;We all feel drunk [with happiness] now,&quot; says the Iranian engineer. &quot;Have<br>
you ever had a new laptop? Imagine that excitement multiplied many-fold.&quot;<br>
When the Revolutionary Guard first recovered the drone, they were aware it<br>
might be rigged to self-destruct, but they &quot;were so excited they could not<br>
stay away.&quot;<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein" target="_blank">Albert Einstein</a><br>

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Da_Vinci" title="Leonardo Da Vinci" target="_blank">Leonardo Da Vinci</a><br>
Perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry" title="Antoine de Saint Exupéry" target="_blank">Antoine de Saint Exupéry</a><br>